# Standards Management — Program Element 0605056F

**Program element:** 0605056F  
**Component:** U.S. Air Force  
**Appropriation:** 3600 — RDT&E, Air Force  
**Budget Activity:** 5 — System Development & Demonstration  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0605056F

## Summary

U.S. Air Force requests $43.5M in FY2027, sustained across the five-year plan. In the FY2027 defense authorization, the House cut 10.0% (to $39.1M); the Senate funded it in full; House appropriators funded it in full. 76 SWEG leads the industry work.

## Funding profile

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 40.1 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 41.4 |
| FY2027 | Request | 43.5 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 42.4 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 43.2 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 44.0 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 44.9 |

> Estimate types are not summed — the profile mixes actuals, enacted law, the request, and outyear projections.

## Congressional marks (FY2027)

| Stage | Marked ($M) | Change ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| Request | 43.5 | — |
| House NDAA (HASC) | 39.1 | −4.3 |
| Senate NDAA (SASC) | 43.5 | +0.0 |
| House Approps (HAC-D) | 43.5 | +0.0 |

> FY2027 NDAA authorization marks, as of 2026-07-27. Not appropriations or final law.

## Projects (1)

| Project | Title | FY2025 actual | FY2026 enacted | FY2027 request | Move |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 656060 | Standards Management | 40.1 | 41.4 | 43.5 | +5% |

> Projects are the summable leaves: the program element total is their sum, never added to it.

### Project 656060 — Standards Management

The Open Architecture Management (OAM) PE funds Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) maturation and its adoption by weapon systems across the DAF and the Department of War (DoW). The DoW Acquisition Transformation Strategy mandates Open Systems Architectures in all acquisition programs. The OAM PE democratizes implementation of open architecture across the DAF, accelerating fielding of capabilities, breaking vendor lock and increasing return on investment for cost, agility, interoperability, and lethality operational outcomes. This PE has a direct impact on how quickly the service can implement the DoW Open Systems Architecture Initiative. This budget funds the progression of Open Mission Systems (OMS), the Universal Command and Control Interface (UCI), other emerging MOSA standards, and integration across other DAF and DoW standards. OMS is a non-proprietary, open architecture standard to create reusable and replaceable components that promote speed of integration for adopting weapons systems. The UCI is the DAF's messaging standard for mission-level Command and Control (C2), providing common message definitions to enable C2 coordination across sensors, vehicles, data products, and software. Funding supports development of new mission-critical OMS/UCI features requested by the 30+ operational adopting platforms across the DAF and broader DoW partners. Funding also supports experimentation, modeling, integration events, and studies to establish a common DAF MOSA approach. This includes leveraging commercial industry standards and government-driven standards. Additionally, funding supports horizontal integration and interoperability across Government Reference Architectures (GRAs) and standards. These efforts use Agile methodologies and Development, Security, and Operations (DevSecOps) software practices to deliver products securely to adopting platforms and enable continuous feedback to improve the standards. Further, funding provides targeted technical exploration and risk reduction with adopting platforms to facilitate their MOSA adoption while identifying any changes required within the DAF's MOSA standards. Funding may be utilized to implement innovation insertion, capability insertion, software increments, spiral upgrades, modular component swaps, and other insertions consistent with Modular Open System Architecture.

**Named R-3 performers** (share of this project's FY2027 R-3 total, so they need not reach 100%)**:** 76 SWEG (6.5, 15%), OAM Program Office (2.0, 4.5%).

| Activity (R-2A) | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Architecture Management | 40.1 | 41.4 | 43.5 |

> R-2A activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan. Coverage is partial, so count them, never total them.

## Where the FY2027 request goes

| Category | Share | $M |
|---|---|---|
| Industry primes | 19% | 8.4 |
| Government labs & warfare centers | 7.3% | 3.2 |
| Other / unspecified | 73% | 31.9 |

**Top named industry performers:** 76 SWEG ($6.5M, 15%), OAM Program Office ($2.0M, 4.5%).

> R-3 exhibit contract funding, not USAspending obligations.

## Mission & acquisition strategy

The Open Architecture Management (OAM) PE funds Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) maturation and its adoption by weapon systems across the DAF and the Department of War (DoW). The DoW Acquisition Transformation Strategy mandates Open Systems Architectures in all acquisition programs. The OAM PE democratizes implementation of open architecture across the DAF, accelerating fielding of capabilities, breaking vendor lock and increasing return on investment for cost, agility, interoperability, and lethality operational outcomes. This PE has a direct impact on how quickly the service can implement the DoW Open Systems Architecture Initiative.

As of August 2025, the Architecture and Systems Engineering group has developed an updated acquisition strategy and awarded a contract vehicle to curate, mature, integrate, and field several open architecture efforts. This new acquisition strategy consolidates management of several prior bespoke efforts to drive integration by design across architecture efforts. This new strategy also prioritizes horizontal integration and rationalization across a family of mission systems architectures to ease adoption in legacy and future DAF weapon systems.

## Related program elements

- [0604602F — Armament/Ordnance Development](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604602F) (Air Force)
- [0604256N — Threat Simulator Development](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604256N) (Navy)
- [0604741A — Air Defense Command, Control and Intelligence - Eng Dev](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604741A) (Army)
- [0701212F — Test And Evaluation Support Budget Authority](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0701212F) (Air Force)

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Air Force RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-3, PE 0605056F (PB PB2027); FY2027 NDAA committee marks (as of 2026-07-27).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0605056F")`.

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